The next holiday is quickly approaching, which means it's time for a new set of lunch box notes. These lunch box notes have become something the kids have started looking for each day. They now expect them as we move onto another holiday and call me out when I don't have them in there. I'm thinking this is the last holiday set I'll have to create this year. And next year, they should be good to go for each holiday. I've mentioned in past posts that I print these at the beginning of the month before the holiday (I'm a little late getting this post up.) I print 2 pages on card stock ... read more
Teacher Appreciation Survey For Kids
This week is teacher appreciation week at school. Usually it's later in the year, but since we'll be in the testing world for the last few months of school- it's now. For little man's class, I volunteered to do the "letter day." It was the first day where students wrote words of appreciation for the teachers. Since littles say the darnedest things, I thought a little survey turned into a book, would be something the teachers would treasure. I created the printable and make sure to use questions that the three and four year olds could answer. I printed out two sheets for each of the ... read more
Red Velvet Brookies
Last weekend, my littles and I baked away. Two of their favorite pre-teen friends came over to join in the fun. Our plan was Valentine's goodies, a whole bunch of them! One of the first recipes we started with were these red velvet brookies. I first made pumpkin brookies a few years back. You can see that post here. They were pretty easy and so so good. So, for Valentine's Day this year- I decided to make them again but with red velvet cake mix. And instead of making the cookie mix from scratch this time, I went with store bought cookie dough. The prep time for this recipe is less than ... read more
Valentine’s Day Lunch Box Notes
Valentine's Day is just around the corner. I'm not sure about you but I maaayyy have started decorating the minute my Christmas decorations came down. On to the next holiday, right? Over the past few years, one of my favorite things to do for my littles is put notes in their lunches. I've been creating notes for a little over a year and try to design them with themes in mind. One of my goals last month was to create Valentine's Day Lunch Box notes. Below you'll see the notes along with links to print them. After I created the notes with the cute clip art images, I started thinking about ... read more
Thanksgiving Lunch Box Notes & Turkey Cookies
I cannot believe Thanksgiving is just over a week away. I feel like Halloween was just yesterday, I'm sure I'll be saying the same about Thanksgiving in a few short weeks. Last week, I was reminded by my oldest little that I hadn't made any new lunch box notes for Thanksgiving. Honestly, I hadn't thought much about it. I was just planning on using the school themed ones I had left from the beginning of the year. But, seeing her excitement for all things holidays brings me so much joy. So that night, I got to work creating new lunch box notes. We only have a few days left until Thanksgiving ... read more
Halloween Candy Bark
When the holidays start to roll around, I start looking for ideas of fun things to do with the kids. I scour Pinterest, saving everything to a folder on my phone. As the weekends approach, I let the kids go through those folders and choose fun things to do. One of the things that won this year was making Halloween bark. I love making bark for holidays. It's so easy and a lot of fun for the kids to do. Plus it's easy to gift in little clear bags with a fun gift tag. Easy peasy- which is what I'm all about these days. This bark seriously took less than 10 minutes to make and then about an hour ... read more
Halloween Lunch Box Notes
One thing I love doing for holidays, well really all year long is putting little lunch notes in the kids lunches. I print them out in bulk at the beginning of each month and have them in a drawer ready to go when I pack lunches on Sunday afternoons. The kids love seeing them in there, or so they tell me... A few weeks ago, I ran out of the back to school themed lunch notes I've been packing. I figured since Halloween was just around the corner, it would be fun to design a few new ones. Since things take me a lot longer to cross of my to do list these days, the new lunch notes were ready about ... read more
Friday Favorites- Fall Edition
Well, hi there! This little space has been quiet for far too long. I've missed it a lot and have decided to make the time for this hobby of mine again. I've done a lot of things over the last year that I've wanted to share and am looking forward to doing on here. I'll also be starting the IG back up as well, so make sure to follow along on there as well @LeahwithLove Fall is officially here. While the temperature is still reaching 90 most days here, there has been a bit of a breeze in the mornings. I'll take what I can get! If you've been around here for a while, you know my love of fall runs ... read more
Strawberry Watermelon Popsicles
Summer is here and I can't tell you how much fun it's been so far. The kids are at great ages right now. We're out exploring each day and able to come home in the afternoon for lots of playing together. It's been wonderful and I'm grateful for my time home with them. Each summer, we make summer bucket lists- which I'll share soon. One of the things on the bucket list was making popsicles. When we wrote it on there, I realized I never shared the popsicles we made last summer! Last summer, the kids LOVED making homemade popsicles. During Amazon Prime day last year, I ordered these Zoku ... read more
Hello, Summer! Gift Idea & Printable
The final countdown is on. There are only two more days left until summer break. The countdown has been on in our house for the last month. As a mom, I'm excited to have my kids home for the summer. I'm also excited that they're signed up for some camps. As a teacher, I'm beyond ready for a break. I'm ready to slow down, recharge and just enjoy my time off. For the last two years, I've celebrated the start of summer with a little basket filled with fun summer things to give to AG on the last day of school. For the months leading up to summertime, I scout the Dollar Spot for things I think ... read more
